Another finding of current research

Another finding of current research is that students with bystander status reported strongerpeer attachment than those with victim status and bully/victims status. No differences were obtainedbetween victims, bullies and bully/victims. It seems that because bystanders are not involved in bullyincidents as a bully or victim, they are able to develop sound relationships with peers and thus, receivesupport from them in return. Thus, they may feel satisfied in peer relations at school, and this mightlead to higher peer attachment. Supporting this statement, Simons-Morton et al. (1999) concluded intheir study that adolescents who had positive and strong social ties tended to display more pro-socialbehaviors in social relations, and less fighting, bullying, vandalism and substance abuse than those withweak social ties. This finding of current research is also supported by a study (Skues et al., 2005)disclosing that victimized adolescents had low level of peer attachment